I need hardly tell my
readers that Quarantine is in the news….
In the nineteenth
century, quarantine was always in the news. All travel involved risks and in
areas like the Mediterranean and Black Sea where large movements of people were
part of everyday commercial life, authorities monitored people and ships constantly. Letters
going from A to B were disinfected on the way if it was believed that A was in the
grip of some outbreak of infectious disease. Ships could only enter port when
granted certification that they ware disease-free. And so on.
In the forthcoming sale
of the Christou collection at Heinrich Koehler Wiesbaden there are a large
number of lots which relate to quarantine, notably certificates issued under
the denomination of Patente de Santé. Some
are issued by Russian authorities and some by Ottoman, some are in Russian and Arabic, some in French. Here are a few examples:
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Of course, you may be
quarantined and unable to view these lots in Wiesbaden. But fortunately there
is no quarantine on viewing online or bidding online …. All the lots are
illustrated at the link below:
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